How to Improve the Evaluation Methods of IT Outcomes in Government Organizations: A Perspective of Benefits Realization

공공부문 정보기술 성과평가의 개선방안에 관한 연구: 성과실현 관점

Information Technology represents substantial financial investment for government organization. However, it seems that the real goal of IT investment, which is to make government more efficient, effective, and responsible through IT systems, has not been seriously aware of in the government organizations. As a result, despite of large investment in IT over many years, substantial benefits accrued to the work, such as process innovation and work efficiency, have not actually occurred. In this paper, it is argued that, since IT benefits will not be realized without any effective benefits realization efforts, it is needed in IT evaluation to put more emphasis on the efforts. Therefore, it is suggested that appropriate IT evaluation can possibly work as a guideline for deriving the desired benefits through the IT investment. In this study, some of the well known approaches were reviewed about what IT evaluation and IT benefits realization efforts should be. Current evaluation method was analyzed from the perspective of benefits realization. On the basis of the analysis, this study leads to suggestions that improve the current ways of evaluating IT performance, helping government focus on realizing practical IT benefits at work.

그동안 공공부문에서는 정보화 성과에 대한 구체적인 목표의식이 결여된 채 정보시스템의 개발자체에만 열중한 결과 실질적인 성과는 보여주지 못하였다. 본 연구에서는 이 문제의 해결방안을 적절한 성과평가제도의 확립을 통해서 모색해 보고자 하였다. 성과평가는 계획단계에서 정의된 정보화 성과의 달성을 유도할 수 있다. 즉 합리적인 성과평가제도가 지속적이고 체계적인 성과관리를 유도하며 궁극적으로 정보화 성과를 달성하는 데 기여할 것이기 때문이다. 따라서 성과평가제도의 개선방향도 이러한 기여에 맞추어 추진되어야 할 것이다. 본 연구는 성과관리의 관점에서 현행 정보화 성과평가의 문제점을 분석하고 이에 대한 개선방향을 제시하는 것을 목적으로 한다.